Studying Leadership

Traditional and Critical Approaches

Doris Schedlitzki, Gareth Edwards

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781529752885
  9781529752892
• Edition: 3
• eBook ISBN:
  9781529773439
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Leadership
• Index: Business

This book is your comprehensive guide to key leadership theories, topics and trends. It goes beyond the basics to explore contemporary issues such as power and politics, authenticity, followership, toxicity, language, identity, ethics and sustainability, enabling you to gain a deep, holistic understanding of the field.

Updated throughout with new examples, Critical Thinking boxes and further reading suggestions, the third edition of Studying Leadership: Traditional and Critical Approaches is the ideal accompaniment to leadership courses across a range of subject areas, including Business & Management, Health and Education.

Lecturers can access a range of useful resources, including an instructor's manual, selected SAGE Business Cases and videos, PowerPoint slides and a testbank, via the companion website.

Doris Schedlitzki is Professor in Organisational Leadership at Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University.

Gareth Edwards is Professor of Leadership and Community Studies at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Summary of Contents
• Contents
• Table List
• Illustration List
• Acknowledgements
• About the Authors
• Guided Tour
• Online Resources
• Endorsements
• Introduction Mapping Different Approaches to Studying Leadership
• Part I Traditional Approaches to Leadership
• 1 Leadership and Management
• 2 Leadership Competencies Traits, Personality, Skills, Styles and Intelligences
• 3 Contingency and Leader–Member Exchange (LMX) Theories of Leadership
• 4 Charismatic and Transformational Leadership
• Part II Current Issues in Leadership
• 5 Perspectives on Leadership Context
• 6 Followership, Psychoanalytic and Relational Approaches to Leadership
• 7 Leadership and Power
• 8 Strategic Leadership and Leading Change
• 9 Distributed Leadership
• 10 Leadership and Culture
• 11 Leadership Learning and Development
• Part III Critical Issues in Leadership
• 12 Leadership, Gender and Diversity
• 13 Leadership, Ethics and Toxicity
• 14 Leadership, Language and Identity
• 15 Leadership, Arts and Aesthetics
• 16 Researching Leadership
• Appendix Case Studies
• Glossary
• References
• Index